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Minnesota’s embattled Democrat Governor Tim Walz earned a standing ovation at a party fundraiser in Seattle Tuesday when he promised to bring even more fraud-prone Somali migrants into his state. The failed Democrat nominee for vice president appeared at a fundraiser luncheon sponsored by Gov. Bob Ferguson (D-WA), where Walz told the audience that Somalis were being “demonized” by critics of the Minnesota Somali community’s billions in fraud and wholesale theft of state welfare funding. “These folks better not ever mistake our kindness for our weakness because we are going to defend our neighbors. These guys bring out the worst...

A Minnesota prisoner freed early from prison by Governor Tim Walz under a controversial new scheme is being hunted by police. Convicted drug dealer Vance Marie Nin, 23, who has an image of a cannabis leaf tattooed to her face, was released from prison in Shakopee in September despite having a previous assault conviction. Nin had served only 16 months of a 48-month sentence for second-degree drug sales, but was freed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) after she met the requirements for early release under a Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Act (MRRA) pilot program. MRRA, signed into law...